Write names on three pieces of paper, throw them up in the air (in the dark); feel for one, put it under the pillow, and in the morning look at it to see the name of the man you are to marry.
Salem, Mass.
Superstition #241
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 241.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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